Tent



F. W. TIMMERMAN.

TENT. APPLICATION FILED FEB. 18, I92!- 1,406,301, Patented Feb. 14, 1922.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK VT. TII'IMERMAN, OF ST. LGUIS, MISSOURI.

T 0 aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK W. TIM- MERMAN, a citizen of the United States, and resident of St. Louis, Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tents, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in tents and has for its object a tent constructed with a pliable or foldable ridge, a stiffening.

arm located in pockets formed in the ends of the ridge and supported on the top of the tent poles and a means located in the extension placed on top of the pole for drawing "the ridge tight andpreventing that portion Figure 1, is a perspective view of a tent embodying my invention.

Fig. 2, is a detail sectional view of the pole extension member and stiffening member made use of.

Fig. 3, is a perspective view of the several poles .ready to be assembled.

Fig. 4, is a detail perspective view of a portion of the tent cover showing the pocket for the reception of the stiffening member.

Fig. 5, is a detail perspective view of a modified form of stiffening member arranged in sections.

In the general construction of my invention I provide a suitable tent cover 6 which consists of a top 7, side walls 8, front and rear walls 9 and the general use of guy ropes 10.

The ridge 11 of the tent may be constructed of a fabric such as webbing, rope or the like and at convenient locations on the ridge are attached cleats 12 which support a ring or loop 13. On each end of the ridge and to each under side is securely fastened by means of stitching or the like, a strip 14:, a suitable amount thereof being left loose so as to form a pocket 15. This pocket runs back a reasonable distance parallel with the ridge and is fastened to the ridge at the point indicated by the numeral 16.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 14, 1922.

Application filed February 18, 1921. Serial No. 446,005.

In this pocket is adapted to be inserted a stiffening member 17 which may be made of any flexible, durable, material. Its one end is provided with a hole 18 of a size sufficient to fit over a pin 19 supported in the upper section 20 of a sectional end tent pole 21.

Qver this pin and after the stiffening member has been placed over the pin, an extension member 22 is placed, the same being provided with a bore 28 formed in itself to accommodate the pin and in said member is provided a slot 24: in which is axially mounted a pulley 25, over which a tightening rope or the like 26 is placed, its end 27 secured to the ring or loop 13 and its opposite end placed down running lengthwise with the end pole and placed over a pulley 28 attached to the bottom end of the end pole or to the block in which the pole rests. This pulley may be made of alock arrangement so that by pulling upon the free bottom end of the rope and then shifted partially to one side it will bind itself between the pulley and its bearing, or the same may be held in adjusted position by the tightening slides or keys 29.

The essential feature of this invention is to provide a tent to be constructed and set up without the use of a ridge pole, yet provide a means for keeping the ridge perfectly straight and tight; the tightening means which pulls the ridge tight has a tendency to sag at the ends between the fastening end of the rope and the polesas that shown by dotted lines A in Fig. 1.

This sagging is prevented by means of the stiffening member 17 which keeps that portion of the tent parallel and in proper alignment with the section between each fastening end of the ropes.

In some instances where I find it necessary to use a longer stiffening member I may construct the same in sections as that indicated in Fig. 5 and when so used the pockets may be of such length as to accommodate an extension member.

Having fully described my invention what I claim is:

1. A tent of the character described comprising a sectional end supporting pole, a stiffening arm attached to the top of said pole, a foldable ridge member and pockets formed on the ridge member for the reception of the stiffening arm, a detachable section mounted on the top of the pole a pulley carried by said section and a tightening base of the pole, substantially as specified.

3. A device of the character described comprising a sectional end pole, a pin located on the upper end of the top section, a stiffening member supported over said p1n, an extension mounted over said pin, a pulley supported in said extension, in combination with a tent cover, of a pocket formed in the ridge of the tent cover in which the stifi'en ing member is inserted and a rope attached to the ridge at the free end of the stiffening member and passing over the roller in the extension, and means for fastening the lower end of the rope to the base of the pole, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof, I have'signed my name to this specification, in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FREDERICK N. TIMMERMAN.

Vitnesses ALFRED A. EICKS,

B. M. MANNE. 

